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Déjà Vu and the End of History
Paolo Virno
Watching Themselves Live 1
When psychiatrists refer to déjà vu, they do not mean a known event of the past playing out again, accompanied by either euphoric amazement or bored condescension. Rather, here we have an only apparent repetition, one that is entirely illusory. We believe that we have already experienced (or seen, heard, done, etc.) something that is, in fact, happening for the first time at this very moment. We mistake the current experience for the very faithful copy of an…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2015
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Language & Linguistics
Subjects
Historicity & Historiography, Temporality, Memory